Below is a scholarship opportunity for graduating seniors. The deadline is February 1, 2015. Share with your contacts or any party that may benefit from this offer:

Please share this information with high school students, parents, guidance counselors, principals, teachers, and churches:

The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program awards scholarships to high school seniors to attend any of the nineteen 1890 Land Grant Historically Black Institutions in agriculture, food, natural resource sciences or other related disciplines.

The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program will provide full tuition, employment, employment benefits, fees, books, and room and board each year for up to four years to students pursuing a bachelor's degree at the following universities:

Alabama A&M University

Alcorn State University, Mississippi

Central State University, Ohio

Delaware State University

Florida A&M University

Fort Valley State University, Georgia

Kentucky State University

Langston University, Oklahoma

Lincoln University, Missouri

North Carolina A&T State University

Prairie View A&M University, Texas

South Carolina State University

Southern University, Louisiana

Tennessee State University

Tuskegee University, Alabama

University of Arkansas Pine Bluff

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Virginia State University

West Virginia State University

The scholarship may be renewed each year contingent upon satisfactory academic performance and normal progress toward the bachelor's degree.

Eligible students must be U.S. citizens, have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better, have been accepted at one of the 1890 HBCUs, study agriculture, food, natural resource sciences or other related academic disciplines, demonstrate leadership and community service.

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